Stripped to Kill

1987
R
1 Std. 28 Min.

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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuWhen Detective Cody Sheehan discovers the body of a stripper from the Rock Bottom dance club, she wants the case. But the only way Cody can get the assignment is to go undercover - uncovered... Alles lesenWhen Detective Cody Sheehan discovers the body of a stripper from the Rock Bottom dance club, she wants the case. But the only way Cody can get the assignment is to go undercover - uncovered - at the club.When Detective Cody Sheehan discovers the body of a stripper from the Rock Bottom dance club, she wants the case. But the only way Cody can get the assignment is to go undercover - uncovered - at the club.

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4,9/10

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Katt Shea got the idea for this film after her then husband Andy Ruben made her go to a strip club after she lost a bet with him. At first, she was embarrassed because everyone thought she was an off-duty stripper. When she sat down to watch the show, she soon realized that their dancing was a valid form of artistic expression. That's when she decided to make this movie in order to show their true abilities.

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Most police departments would not allow their employees to go undercover as entertainers in any sexually-oriented business due to the morals clauses of their policies. Instead, Cody may have been allowed to go undercover as a waitress or another position where she would not be required to take off her clothes.

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Ray: Wanna turn the neon off? You know what my electric bill is?
[to the stripper:]
Ray: And *you*... deal was topless for thirty!

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Featured in We Kill for Love (2023)

Soundtracks
Deny the Night
Written by Andy Ruben and John O'Kennedy
Performed by Larry Steicher
Produced by John O'Kennedy and Ed Martel

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Low-budget thriller delivers

My review was written in June 1987 after a screening at Cine 2 theater on Manhattan's 42nd St.

"Stripped to Kill" is a solid little thriller set in the world of topless dancing. Nearing the end of its regional theatrical run, pic is likely to do well in the home video market on the basis of its exploitation angles.

Kay Lenz stars as a policewoman in L. A. assigned by her partner Greg Evigan to go undercover, posing as a stripper to catch a serial killer of dancers at a local club. She gets a dancing job from club owner Norman Fell after winning an amateur sriptease contest there with help from an audience stacked with off-duty cops.

Scripters Katt Shea Ruben (former actress who also makes her helming debut here) and Andy Ruben play fair with the audience, offering legitimate clues and red herrings regarding the killers identity. Solution to the whodunit is ingenious; though very difficult to guess even by the alert viewer it is satisfying.

Lenz, firmly established as a sexy screen presence 15 years ago in her debut in Clint Eastwood's "Breezy". Is extremely effective here, faking several stripteases which substitute acting for professional dancing. Director Ruben stylizes the frequent strip sequences, using stylish pastel lighting effects and elaborate, acrobatic choreography by Ted Lin to create more traditional burlesque routines than the strictly sex approach. A cast of maily pro dancers perform well, ditto support roles by Evigan and Fell plus a funny turn by Diana Bellamy as a taciturn lady at police headquarters.